activity
→
commerce, business
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2734 | busy | → | commerce, business | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Derivation | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | πρᾶξις | |
| Meaning 1 | activity | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | trade | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | Also πρηκτήρ 'merchant, vendor, phonetically it is an Ionic form (Homer) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | German | |
| Lexeme | Geschäft | |
| Meaning 1 | occupation | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | business, commercial activity | |
| Reference | Moskal'skaja (ed.) 2001 | |
| Comment | From schaffen 'to create, to work, to make' | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | delo | |
| Meaning 1 | job, affair, thing | Сделал дело - гуляй смело Once you have finished your business you can have a party |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | business | Открыть свое дело. to open one's business |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Swahili | |
| Lexeme | amili | |
| Meaning 1 | to do, to make, to commit, to fulfil, to act | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to trade | |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | Polikanov | |
| NEW Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tagalog | |
| Lexeme | negosyo | |
| Meaning 1 | occupation, job | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | commerce, business | |
| Reference | Krus, Ignašev 1959: 220 | |
| Comment | From Spanish negocio | |